Job Description:
The Structured Derivatives team at TD Securities is seeking an experienced cross-asset derivatives professional to join its sales platform and support the continued growth of the structured products franchise. The role focuses on the origination, structuring, and execution of customized investment and hedging solutions for wealth, institutional, and distribution clients across the Americas.
The Vice President of Structured Derivatives Sales will develop and maintain client relationships across the U.S. and Latin America, supporting the Bank's strategic growth and distribution initiatives. The candidate will partner closely with trading, structuring, legal, compliance, treasury, and operations teams across North America to deliver tailored derivatives and structured investment solutions while helping expand the firm's cross-asset platform and client footprint.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working with structured products, derivatives, options-based strategies, and cross-asset investment solutions
- Strong understanding of derivatives markets, volatility, options, issuer risk, and structured products mechanics
- Established relationships with institutional investors, broker dealers, private banks, RIAs, insurance companies, or asset managers
- Contribute to the continued growth and expansion within the QIS platform
- Demonstrated ability to communicate complex investment strategies and derivative structures in a clear, client-focused manner
- Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced environment with a high degree of accountability, adaptability, and autonomy
- Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills with the ability to build relationships across internal and external stakeholders
- Detail-oriented individual with strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving capabilities
Additional Job Expectations:
- Active participation in client meetings, industry conferences, and broader business development initiatives
- Foster strong cross-functional collaboration and maintain a high standard of responsiveness and professionalism across the platform
- Contribute to team culture, mentorship, and knowledge sharing initiatives across the broader sales and trading organization
Depth & Scope:
- Position liaises closely with the Banks other operations in Canada, Europe and the U.S. to assist in meeting the Banks objectives
- Strict adherence personally and at a desk level to the firm's procedures
- Understands and complies with TD Policies, regulatory and compliance requirements
- Ensures that transactions are fully documented and processed accurately and in a timely manner
- Communicates bank policy information and strategy between the product head and relevant trading personnel
- Fully informed on market data, economic information and key industry developments as well as regulatory standards at all times
- Develops and maintains contacts
- Understands the approved Business Strategies (Strategic Business Reviews SBRs), applicable to the business, and ensures that all of your business dealings are in alignment with these strategies
- Follows Credit Risk Policies and procedures, as they apply to the business and is responsible for being aware of and understanding such policies and procedures and ensuring that applicable sales and trading activity is in line with those policies
- Demonstrates governance, control and risk management behaviors in alignment with TD policies and practices
Education & Experience:
- Undergraduate degree in Business (Accounting or Finance) or Mathematics/Economics.
- Series 7 and 63
- 5-7 Years of related experience
- Must be detail oriented and possess problem-solving skills
- Must be able to work independently with minimal supervision and establish priorities
- Proficient in interpersonal communication (both oral and written), and have the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of staff and management
Physical Requirements:
- Domestic Travel – Occasional
- International Travel – Never
- Performing sedentary work – Continuous
- Performing multiple tasks – Continuous
- Operating standard office equipment - Continuous
- Responding quickly to sounds – Occasional
- Sitting – Continuous
- Standing – Occasional
- Walking – Occasional
- Moving safely in confined spaces – Occasional
- Lifting/Carrying (under 25 lbs.) – Occasional
- Lifting/Carrying (over 25 lbs.) – Never
- Squatting – Occasional
- Bending – Occasional
- Kneeling – Never
- Crawling – Never
- Climbing – Never
- Reaching overhead – Never
- Reaching forward – Occasional
- Pushing – Never
- Pulling – Never
- Twisting – Never
- Concentrating for long periods of time – Continuous
- Applying common sense to deal with problems involving standardized situations – Continuous
- Reading, writing and comprehending instructions – Continuous
- Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing – Continuous
Who We Are
TD Securities offers a wide range of capital markets products and services to corporate, government, and institutional clients who choose us for our innovation, execution, and experience. With more than 6,500 professionals operating out of 40 cities across the globe, we strive to make every interaction, product and experience remarkably human and refreshingly simple. Our services include underwriting and distributing new issues, providing trusted advice and industry-leading insight, extending access to global markets, and delivering integrated transaction banking solutions. In 2023, we acquired Cowen Inc., offering our clients access to a premier U.S. equities business and highly-diverse equity research franchise, while growing our strong, diversified investment bank.
Together, we are reimagining what banking can be for our clients, colleagues and communities.
Our Total Rewards Package
Our Total Rewards package reflects the investments we make in our colleagues to help them and their families achieve their financial, physical and mental well-being goals. Total Rewards at TD includes base salary and variable compensation/incentive awards (e.g., eligibility for cash and/or equity incentive awards, generally through participation in an incentive plan) and several other key plans such as health and well-being benefits, savings and retirement programs, paid time off (including Vacation PTO, Flex PTO, and Holiday PTO), banking benefits and discounts, career development, and reward and recognition.